Why do most authors write a book? It may be due to inspiration, motivation, life changes, contract requirements or all of the above.

I wrote a book titled, “A Practical Guide to Awareness” because I was inspired to do so. The book is a step by step guide to finding fulfilment through self-awareness.

Apparently, I could no longer ignore the little voice in my head. The voice was whispering to me practically my entire life. As a native of West Palm Beach growing up, I had always known I was to write a book, but little else about it. I went on to a career in public relations and had a family and settled down thinking that was it for me.

Flashback – December 2014 to an email I received containing the information regarding a ‘Conscious Writing Retreat’ in Glastonbury, Somerset, U.K. The originator of the email was a group I had joined a few years earlier, the International Association of Conscious and Creative Writers, founded by Julia McCutchen. Previously, I did not have time to engage in writing prompts and exercises meant to inspire my creative spark. However, this day I was attracted to the information and my gut instinct told me to follow through on signing up for the retreat. I did and was supported in doing so from that day onward. I followed the inspiration and wound up in England that Spring of 2015 participating in what would prove to be a life changing experience in every way.

To describe the process as transformative is the most accurate way to understand how the process affected me, my business, and my family. I arrived as one person and left as a totally different entity with a new way of looking at the world. How did that occur?

You may be wondering…

The process of Conscious Writing is meant to help align oneself with the creative consciousness in order to write what you are meant to write. It works, trust me.

The first day of the retreat, I wrote the outline for the book and started writing the book itself within the gardens of the Glastonbury Abbey ruins. The rest is history as they say and in January of this year, I self published the book.